23 You shall not repeat or raise a false report; you shall not join with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

¹⁶ If a false witness rises up against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

¹⁷ Then both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

¹⁸ The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

¹⁹ Then you shall do to him as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

¹⁹ A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord among his brethren.

²⁸ A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears attentively will endure and go unchallenged.